This is exactly right.

Hey, everyone, it's Stephen Ray Morris.

I'm here to tell you a little bit about sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming and where the two meet in the middle, which is me.

Sleeping has always been, especially lately, has been pretty difficult,

but for most of my life, I've had pretty, like, stressful dreams to the point where I feel

like sleep isn't very restful for me. When I was younger, it used to be really easy for me to

fall asleep, but then the actual dreams and things themselves wouldn't be very restful.

And that, I think, like a common

theme in my dreams is that I have to do a task in a limited amount of time and there's an

obstacle getting in the way. And some of my favorite examples of this are I am like a manager

at a brothel Christmas party and I have to make sure everybody gets their

gifts but all the gifts are unlabeled. I have to catch a train, but I keep running into people

I haven't seen in a long time. So, oh, hey, nice to see. I actually got to catch that train.

And then I run into somebody else. In college, I started getting sleep paralysis. I still do

from time to time, but it was really bad where, you know, it's your, your brain is awake,

but your body is asleep. So there's usually some sort of demon, like, Nazgal Dementor-style

thing in the corner of the room, and it just causes this intense

fear and terror. And so I usually wake up, like everyone I've ever, is whatever,

spent the night with, have always had to deal with me waking up and screaming from these

forces. In college, I met my roommate, my buddy Evan, who's from the Bay Area, and, you know, we all watched

waking life. And in that movie, they talk about lucid dreaming, which is, you know, the ability to

be aware that you're dreaming and control your dreaming, et cetera, et cetera. The two main things that I

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